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Thomas Mofolo

1876 - 1948

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Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (22 December 1876 – 8 September 1948) is often regarded as the first African novelist. His body of work, which consists of three books composed between 1905 and 1910, were first written in Sesotho, and then widely translated. He is best known for his third book, Chaka, a fictional retelling of the story of the rise and fall of the Zulu emperor-king Shaka. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Mofolo is the 5,417th most popular writer (up from 5,790th in 2019). (up from 4,370th in 2019)

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Among writers, Thomas Mofolo ranks 5,417 out of 7,302Before him are Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Sida Košutić, Elmer Rice, Mark Strand, James Cooke Brown, and John Greenleaf Whittier. After him are Iryna Vilde, Brigitte Reimann, M. R. James, Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Gabriele Kuby, and Katarina Frostenson.

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Among people born in 1876, Thomas Mofolo ranks 179Before him are Ernest Henry Wilson, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Stepan Erzia, Ásgrímur Jónsson, Sverre Hassel, and Elisabeth Moore. After him are Sidney Robinson, Pietro Speciale, Ernest Esclangon, Robert Yerkes, Gaston Peltier, and Cécile Tormay. Among people deceased in 1948, Thomas Mofolo ranks 171Before him are Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Julius Curtius, Alice Salomon, István Barta, Wesley Clair Mitchell, and Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha. After him are René Benjamin, Joseph Wedderburn, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, Samuel P. Bush, George Mehnert, and Vasily Kachalov.

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